Known as BadcardsAA online, the 37-year-old Vohra was born in India but has lived in Florida since 2000.

Latching on to poker as a competitive outlet after a wrist injury sidelined his tennis career, Vohra has had remarkable success both online and live.

But he says it was a complete fluke that he even got into the game in the first place.

“I was just randomly watching ESPN and I saw Joe Hachem winning millions of dollars just sitting at a poker table,” Vohra told PokerListings.com.

“It was really inspiring and I knew that if he could do it I could do it,” he added.

Vohra had moved to the US while still playing tennis professionally but after breaking his wrist he was forced to explore other opportunities.

Armed with a degree in accounting from Guru Nanek Dev University in India and the tennis knowledge picked up over almost two decades of playing the game competitively, Vohra spent his time coaching young players, day trading and building a real estate business in Florida.

It was about this time he saw Joe Hachem win $7.5 million at the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas. That was all the inspiration he needed to take a shot at it himself, grinding low-stakes cash games and small tournaments at his local casino.

“I was just grinding at the local casino and then I found Party Poker and discovered that you could sit at home in your pajamas and make money so what could be better than that?” he said.

Black Friday threw a wrench into Vohra's plan to continue playing online poker from his home in Florida.

After grinding $200 into a few thousand playing cash games Vohra took a shot at the $200k Guarantee and ended up chopping it for $40,000.

Over the next few years Vohra continued to post big results, highlighted by a fifth-place finish in a $5k No-Limit event at the 2008 WSOP for $195k.

But 2010 was the year things clicked. Vohra won an FTOPS event on Full Tilt Poker for $430,000, a SCOOP title on PokerStars for $240,000 and had a WCOOP runner-up finish worth $156,528.

With all the confidence in the world, and the bankroll to back it up, Vohra was ready to hit the online grind hard in 2011. Everything was going according to plan, until April 15.

“I seriously miss online poker because I had the best year ever in 2010 so yes, Black Friday affected me a lot,” Vohra said.

Vohra is here in London playing the ongoing EPT main event at the Hilton Metropole and he’ll be heading to Cannes for the WSOP Europe before traveling to India to see family. Something he hasn’t done in almost five years.

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